Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the Future
Space archaeologist Alice Gorman explores the cultural significance of the things we have left behind
In December 2019, the European Space Agency announced the first mission to remove items of debris from Earth’s orbit. Rather than trawling the terrestrial oceans for plastic waste or litter picking our land, the project will collect rubbish from human space missions thousands of kilometres above us.
In Dr Space Junk vs the Universe, space archaeologist Alice Gorman explores the cultural significance of the things we have left behind. Do the human artefacts in space have heritage value as evidence of our collective history or is it just rubbish?